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Rupes Mercator

Lunar escarpment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Rupes Mercator is an escarpment located on the Moon.[1] It is named after the neighboring Mercator crater, a name assigned to it in 1935 by the International Astronomical Union in honor of the Flemish geographer and mathematician Gérard Mercator.

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